Tutka Bay, Kenai Peninsula -- Eskimo family in front of their yaranga, Chukotka -- Trees killed during 1964 earthquake, Aialik Bay, Kenai Fjords National Park -- PRELUDE -- Bald eagle perched atop Russian Orthodox church, Unalaska Island, Aleutian Islands -- Clouds at sunset over Chenik Mountain, Kamishak Bay -- Landscape off the snowbound coast of Chukotka -- Arctic cotton grass, Denali National Park -- Siberian schoolboy -- Curious bear looks over sauna at Chenik Brown Bear Camp, Kamishak Bay -- Grave. date unknown, Lake Clark -- Sailing between Kamchatka and the Komandor Islands -- Grasses along shore of Cook Inlet, Kenai Peninsula -- Late afternoon on the shores of Lake Baikal -- Zima Junction grandmother -- Native Kamchatka worker -- Arrigetch Peaks, Gates of the Arctic National Park. Arrigetch is Eskimo for "fingers of the outstretched hand." -- Mike McBride and son Morgan, Hazel Lake, Kenai Mountains -- Young caribou grazes on tundra near Mt. Sanford, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park -- Bering's grave on the Komandor Islands, looking toward the Aleutian Islands -- Looking across the Bering Strait, toward Siberia -

DIVIDED TWINS -- Chukchi reindeer herder -- Teddy, a grizzly bear, and her first cub, McNeil Cove, Kamishak Bay -- Yukon River, in the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve -- The high peaks of the Kamchatka Mountains -- Unnamed peaks and glaciers, Lake Clark Pass, Chigmit Mountains -- Mike McBride, owner of Kachemak Bay Wilderness Lodge, on the shore of the bay, Kenai Peninsula -- Alaskan singer Tom Koester on the shore of the Angara River in Irkutsk -- Chuck and Sarah Hornberger's Koksetna Camp, Lake Clark -- Hay fields near Zima Junction -- Trainer on horse farm near the Selenga River -- Horses in summer fields near the Selenga River -- Storm clouds over Lake Baikal -- Dusk, Lake Clark, Lake Clark National Park -- De Haviland Beaver, a venerable bush plane, making a turn in Lake Clark Pass, Chigmit Mountains -- Helicoptering over a thermal valley in Kamchatka -- Aialik Glacier, Kenai Fjords National Park -- Unnamed peaks and glaciers, Lake Clark Pass, Lake Clark National Park, Chigmit Mountains -- Upper Yetna River, Denali National Park -- Grave near Ninilchik, Kenai Peninsula -- Lush green tundra in June at Chenik Head, Kamishak Bay -- Grazing field in spring, Kamchatka -- "I Love You" written in the sand, Komandor Islands -- Happy sailor, Kamchatka -- Shores of the Bering Sea, Kamchatka -- The Accidentless Captain -- Tugboat on the Angara River, near Irkutsk -- Ocean voyage between Komandor Islands and Petropavlovsk-on-Kamchatka -- Arctic cotton grass and Mt. Drum, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park -- Sunset in the Komandor Islands -

North fork of the Koyukuk River at the "gates," in Gates of the Arctic National Park, south slope of the Brooks Range -- Writer Joe McGinniss backpacking in Gates of the Arctic National Park, north slope of Brooks Range -- Guide Nellie Fore carriers her pack to a waiting bush plane, Chenik Cove, Kamishak Bay -- Writer John Madison prepares tea while waiting out a storm at Turquoise Lake, Lake Clark National Park -- Oka River camping trip -- Backpackers, Geyser Valley, Kamchatka -- Mushrooms, Kenai Fjords National Park -- Author's hand rowing with a dragonfly on the Oka River -- Wilderness guide Leslie Johnson, Chenik Brown Bear Camp, Kamishak Bay. The gun, for protection against bear attacks, has never been used against a bear -- Bald eagle, Kachemak Bay, Kenai Peninsula -- Thermal mud pot, Geyser Valley, Kamchatka -- Geyser Valley, Kamchatka -- Dall sheep, Gates of the Arctic National Park, north slope of Brooks Range -- Red fox with mouthful of ground squirrels, Denali National Park -- Fresh grizzly bear tracks in mud by Kuyuktuvuk Creek, Gates of the Arctic National Park, Brooks Range -- Young grizzly bear chasing salmon in stream, McNeil River Brown Bear Sanctuary, Kamishak Bay -- Chinook salmon, Kenai Peninsula -- Salmon spawning on Lake Saran, Komandor Islands -- Wilderness guide Dale Froman and red salmon, Chenik Lagoon, Kamishak Bay -- Duck in flight, Chulitna River, Lake Clark -- Hopscotch on sidewalk of Khabarovsk -- Schoolboy with bird, Irkutsk -

Road in downtown Iliamna -- Youngster skateboarding near historic old log buildings, Irkutsk -- Windsurfer, Turnagain Arm, Cook Inlet, near Anchorage -- Zima Junction schoolchildren -- Mother and child, Irkutsk -- Bush plane taking on cargo, Homer, Alaska -- Diane McBride, owner of Kachemak Bay Wilderness Lodge, piloting a boat -- Petropavlovsk-on-Kamchatka -- Town of Unalaska, Unalaska Island, Aleutian Islands -- Babushkas at Zima Junction, Russian Orthodox church -- Russian Orthodox church, Unalaska Bay, Aleutian Islands -- Russian Orthodox church, Ninilchik, Kenai Peninsula -- Cemetery, Russian Orthodox church, Ninilchik, Kenai Peninsula -- Russian Orthodox church, Irkutsk -- Old Russian Orthodox church, town of Kenai, Kenai Peninsula -- A Personal Letter from the Generalissimo -- Siberian war veteran under portrait of Stalin, Selenga River -- George Calvin, who homesteaded in the Kenai Peninsula in 1962 -- Sauna, Kachemak Bay Wilderness Lodge -- Old woman waiting for train, Zima Junction -- Traditional Siberian home near Zima Junction -- Window of home, Irkutsk -- Private home, Halibut Cove, Kachemak Bay, Kenai Peninsula -- Traditional Siberian house, Irkutsk -- Siberian babushkas -- Siberian babushkas -- Aunt Zhenya, Zima Junction -- Sarah Hornberger, of Koksetna Camp, and her fabulous garden -- Aeroflot hostess -- Kamchatka farmworker at poetry reading -- Siberian babushkas in their flower garden -- Margaret and Nelson Gingerich in bar outside Anchorage -- Bar outside Anchorage -- Man with tattoos, Chukotka -- Traditional Siberian wooden gates, Irkutsk -- Gravediggers, Kamchatka -- Retired pilot, Zima Junction -- Retiree in his wood yard, Selenga River -- Former prisoner, nicknamed "Stalin's Assassin, Zima Junction -- War veteran, Oka River -

Listening to poetry in Kamchatka -- False hellebore, Chenik Head, Kamishak Bay -- Guest Susan Gibler and wilderness guides Nellie Fore and Karen Rebar examine tundra flowers, Chenik Brown Bear Camp, Kamishak Bay -- Hulk of ship sunk during Japanese raid on Dutch Harbor during World War II, Aleutian Islands -- Dutch Harbor, Unalaska Island, Aleutian Islands -- Dry Dock, Petropavlovsk Harbor, Kamchatka -- Petropavlovsk Harbor, Kamchatka -- Kamchatka fisherman wearing striped shirt of the Soviet Navy -- Polly Hessing, biologist and wilderness guide, McNeil River Brown Bear Sanctuary -- Augustin Volcano from Chenik Head, Kamishak Bay, three months after major eruption in 1986 -- Immature bald eagle, Unalaska Island, Aleutian Islands -- Bering Island, largest of the Komandor Islands -- Larry Aumiller, biologist and manager of McNeil River Brown Bear Sanctuary, Kamishak Bay -- Inmates of maximum security prison, Zima Junction -- Baird Mountains, western end of Brooks Range -- Moonrise off Chukotka coast -- Tustemena Glacier and Harding Icefield, Kenai Fjords National Park -- And on the Komandors -- Murres and gulls, Kamchatka -- Murres and gulls, Gull Island, Kachemak Bay -- Immature peregrine falcon, Kuyuktuvuk Creek, Gates of the Arctic National Park, Brooks Range -- Willow ptarmigan, Denali National Park -- Puffins, Kamchatka -- Horned puffins, Matushka Island, Kenai Fjords National Park -- Whale cemetery, Chukotka -- Kachemak Bay, Kenai Mountains, Homer Spit, and town of Homer, Kenai Peninsula -- Old building, McCarthy, near the Wrangell Mountains -- Downtown Unalaska, Aleutian Islands -- Provideniia [sic], Chukotka -- Eskimo village of Anaktuvuk Pass, Brooks Range -

Faces in hats, Chukotka -- Abandoned mining town of Kennicott at the edge of Kennicott Glacier, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park -- Seventieth anniversary celebration of the October Revolution, Sireniki village, Chukotka -- Self-portrait of the author with Eskimo schoolchildren -- Eskimo boys on ferry -- Eskimo poetess Zoya Nenlyumkina in front of a billboard that reads: "Provideniia Port, Gateway to the Arctic -- Sunlight and snow off the Chukotka coast, Bering Strait -- Old Eskimo woman, Chukotka -- Old Eskimo man, Anaktuvuk Pass, Brooks Range -- Sireniki herder in summer anorak with sled -- Sunset, Gulf of Anadyr, Chukotka -- Reindeer herd, Chukotka -- Eskimo child, Chukotka -- Old Sireniki Eskimo, Chukotka -- Eighty-year-old Eskimo men, Chukotka -- Splitting kindling, Chukchi village, Chukotka -- River guide, Kobuk River, Kobuk Valley National Park -- Singer, part of amateur chorale group in Irkutsk -- Siberian musicians play for Alaska Performing Artists for Peace tour, in Irkutsk -- Alaskan Eskimos Theresa John and Chuna McIntyre, in native costumes as part of the Alaska Performing Artists for Peace tour, draw stares from cosmopolitan residents of Novosibirsk -- Eskimo performers Chuna McIntyre and John Pingayak, part of Alaska Performing Artists for Peace troupe, in Khabarovsk -- The photographer prepares for scuba diving in the 38 degree waters of Kachemak Bay -- Octopus in tide pool, China Pool Bay, Kachemak Bay, Kenai Peninsula -- Eskimo grandmother -- Steller's sea lions, Kenai Fjords National Park -- Walrus rookery, Chukotka -- Seal, Komandor Islands -- Steller's sea lions, Kenai Fjords National Park -- Beach on Captain's Bay, Unalaska Island, Aleutian Islands -- Early evening lights in the remote town of Provideniia, Chukota -- Marina, harbor of Seward, Kenai Peninsula -- Arrigetch Peaks, Gates of the Arctic National Park, Brooks Range -- Bering Strait, near the Chukotka coast -- Ice on the Bering Strait, near the Chukotka coast -- Provideniia Bay -- Unnamed mountains on the Chukotka coast.